"Fire!"

With the order of the officer in charge of the Hongyi cannon crew, the cannon that had been ready to fire for a long time finally let out a long-suppressed roar.

With a loud roar, a solid cannonball erupted from behind the Ming army in the center. I saw that this shell crossed a parabola nearly 400 meters long in the sky in the middle of the battlefield, and then smashed heavily on the ground.

However, due to the softness of the soil on the shore of the lake, the shell did not bounce into the air again as expected, forming a ricochet effect, but plunged headlong into the dirt, and after creating a large crater, it seemed to dissolve into zero, splashing a large mist of dirt.

"It's so far, don't be a Hongyi cannon."

Liu Da, a veteran of the Raised Left Battalion, looked past the spearmen walking in the front row, squinted his eyes and watched the solid cannonball move after stirring up a burst of dirt.

Later, the commander Huang Degong died in battle, and his general, Tian Xiong, and another military general named Ma Degong tied up the Hongguang Tianzi who defected to Huang Degong and went to the Qing army, and he inexplicably became a green battalion soldier.

Although betraying the Son of Heaven made him very uncomfortable, the boss on his head always treated himself well, especially after following the Qing army south, he always knew that he had not tasted the taste of a woman, so he robbed a little lady to be his daughter-in-law, which made Liu Da firm in his mind to follow.

Wouldn't you just shave your head? When I kept my hair, I didn't see anyone marrying a daughter-in-law for me, and now I want to find a woman, just follow the officers to the countryside to rob it, not to mention the three media and six hires, even the money for visiting the kiln is saved.

Now the robbed woman has also accepted her fate, honestly teaching her husband and children at home, if she can cut off a few more heads this time, it is estimated that it will not only be as simple as rewarding silver and robbing the goods, maybe she can also snatch a yellow flower girl as a concubine.

Thinking about the scene of two little ladies serving him on a bed at home, Liu Da couldn't help licking his lips. "There is still more than half a mile ahead, and when Lao Tzu rushes over and cuts down all the eggs of you recruits, you can go back to live a good life."

On the other side of the battlefield, Wang Yi looked at the results of the Hongyi cannon that he had high hopes for, and was quite disappointed.

The Hongyi cannon itself is highly accurate, but it can only be achieved with artillery aiming skills and a crew that is familiar with the gun. From this cannon to hand, Wang Yi specially arranged for the best gunners in the army at that time to form a special artillery group to serve this cannon, but the Ming army of Dalanshan has always regarded it as its own flesh and blood, holding it in his hand for fear of falling, holding it in his mouth for fear of melting, and the CCP has not dared to take it out and use it several times in the past two years. As for hits, let's take our time.

Of course, there is actually another way to improve the hit rate, and that is to use the special measuring tools that come with the gun, such as gun gauges, gun rulers, scale plates, and telescopes, which are all used to measure distances.

In this era, the Ming and Qing armies learned from the Portuguese in the use of Hongyi cannons, but during the Dengzhou Rebellion, almost all of the Portuguese instructors, including Xilaojing, Lu Weiliu, and Fulang Aranda, were killed by the rebellious soldiers led by their student Kong Youde. Kong Youde, who voted for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, did not pass the test in his own skills, and the Ming army who did not die in Dengzhou were basically punished, so the artillery of the Ming and Qing dynasties in this era still relied more on experience to aim.

In this way, Wu Zhenchaoha, who was in charge of firearms earlier in the Qing army, that is, the current Han Eight Banners, was relatively more advantageous, and the artillery crews of other types of artillery in Dalanshan were far more accurate than the artillery crews of this Hongyi cannon because of the more operations.

"There's no way to miss it, the next shot should be able to hit."

The Qing army continued to advance, and the cannon just now did not have any impact on the Qing army, even if a lot of dirt smashed on the head of the Qing army in the middle road, it did not affect their march, but the Ming army was startled by the loud noise behind them, especially those friendly troops who were arranged to cooperate in the front and the two battalions in the middle road.

Wang Yi glanced at the gun crew of the Hongyi cannon, which seemed to be still reset, and the Qing army had already entered the range of the Fulong cannon.

"Wait."

The direction of the cannon just now was correct, and the main reason for the failure to hit was that too little gunpowder was put and the thrust generated by the combustion was not enough, which led to the lack of range. Compared to the cannon crew of the Hongyi cannon, and this reason seemed to have begun to affect his judgment.

The Qing army was still in the queue, slowly advancing, and the shot just now made Tian Xiong, who was riding under the banner of the Chinese army, a little crying and laughing.

"How can there be a Hongyi cannon, this thing can also be taken out for field battles, it really deserves to be a civilian official leading the troops." As soon as this idea came out, he regretted that he hadn't dispatched some rangers in advance to trick the opponent's firearms into firing in advance, so that the casualties would be smaller.

Forget it, so be it.

"Go ahead and get into range and the archers suppress."

At this moment, the Ming army's several Furlong cannons also roared together, compared to the previous Hongyi cannon, perhaps because of the more drills, so the landing point of the cannonballs was closer to the formation of the Qing army.

After washing his face with the splashed soil, Liu Da immediately propped up the shield in his hand, as a veteran who has been in the army for many years, he knew very well that the rate of fire of the Furlong machine gun was very fast because it was a son-mother gun, but because it was a child-mother gun, the firing range would be greatly limited. Although he did not know the reason for the reduction of the range of this artillery, his experience on the battlefield over the years told him that once the guns of the Furlong cannon were fired, he would face the suppressive fire of the opposing archers, and this was not far from real hand-to-hand combat.

Suddenly, a cannonball from a Furlong cannon struck a perfect parabola in the sky and smashed directly into the soldier to Liu Da's right. With just a "boom", the man who was as strong as a cow was completely smashed to the ground by this cheap solid cannonball, leaving a crater much smaller than the shell left by the Hongyi cannon just now.

Liu Da trembled and glanced at it, although the man was wearing double armor, but at this moment he was still lying in the crater, as if his whole body was boneless, and a huge bullet hole in his chest seemed to be the hole illuminated by the spell in the finale of "God of Food", but the only difference was that the hole in front of Liu Da's eyes was spurting blood in addition to the scorched and smelly gunsmoke.

"Amitabha, Amitabha, if you don't shoot me, if you don't shoot me, you shouldn't have shot me again, thank you, thank you."

Even if he doesn't understand what probability is, based on experience, Liu Da can still comfort himself with it in his heart. At this moment, his footsteps still maintained their original speed, as if they were not affected in the slightest by the sudden moment just now.

Although fear still surrounded him, as a veteran of the army for many years, he knew very well that if he broke away from the queue and walked forward quickly, he would become a target for the opponent's archers, but if he stopped, he would definitely be killed by the officers who supervised the battle.

It's just that not everyone understands this truth, and the recruit behind the hapless soldier who was smashed into meatloaf by the cannonball stopped immediately after being turned into a mud figure by the stirred dirt.

After a few breaths, the recruit immediately fell into even greater fear as he broke free from the shock that was far beyond his psychological capacity. I saw him turn around and run backwards like crazy, as if he could get rid of this nightmare in front of him. And he did just that, because the officer behind him slashed him in the neck, and after his head was separated, fear left his body forever with the blood spurting out.

"Keep going, if you dare to stop, this guy will be the end!"

The overseer officer who had just gotten the Army's FirstBlood from the deserter who had disrupted the formation out of fear didn't care about the blood on the knife, and immediately added a note to what he had just done, while the other recruits around him who had stopped out of fear and had already turned around to flee had no choice but to drag their weak legs and continue to move in the direction of the Ming army after seeing the scene in front of them.

"Good!"

After a full field of reset, clearing, and loading, the Hongyi cannon that sat behind the mid-lane formation like a general once again roared.

Compared with the previous time, the effect this time was obviously much stronger, a cannonball flew from the back of the formation into the air, and then crossed an arc from the air and fell directly into the queue of the Qing army. Just this cannon, at least three or four Qing soldiers were directly killed, and the surrounding soldiers also screamed and fell to the ground after being baptized by earth and stones.

The battle record looks pretty good, but, that's it, because of the time it takes to reset, clear, and reload again, the Qing army has already pounced, who can guarantee that after readjusting the angle, it will definitely hit the Qing army, not their own soldiers.

On the side of the Ming army, all the four guns of those Furlong cannons have been fired, and due to the different calibers and sizes, the range of the shells fired is also different. The one with the best effect was after hitting a Qing soldier in the front row, and by the way, he took away one leg of the soldier behind him and one of the left feet behind him, and the bad effect abounded......

When the Furlong cannon was placed in the last three guns, the Tiger Squat also fired. Compared with the Franco, this kind of firearm that Qi Jiguang once highly admired was obviously more effective in the hands of the Ming army, and after two or three rounds of small-angle flat fire, the soldiers in the front row of the Qing army suffered a lot of casualties, and even the speed of advance was stopped.

If it were an ordinary army, officers might still be needed to continue to coerce and lure at this moment, but for this standard battalion under Tian Xiong's command, most of them are veterans, and they almost don't need any reminder from the officers to know that there is no need to stop at this moment, they know very well that as long as they can pounce, not only will the opponent not dare to continue to bombard the front unscrupulously, but they can also quickly decide the outcome through hand-to-hand combat!

At this moment, the Qing army has entered a land of arrows, and the tiger squat artillery of the Ming army is still firing hard, but these gunners have long since stopped strolling around as they did just now. After being bought by the opponent's artillery for nearly a mile, the Qing archers began to shoot in an attempt to suppress their opponents, and the Ming army was also not to be outdone, and the archers and bird gunners opened fire one after another. But it is precisely because of this that the smoke on the side of the Ming army has become more intense, so that for a while, it is a little difficult to see the other party's movements.

Fortunately, although the Qing army was full of veterans who knew that they needed to use swords and shields to block the damage of arrows at this moment, most of the Ming troops had also experienced battle formations, and they immediately put up their shields under the reminder of the officers.

However, at this moment, the mutation caused by the smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield, the Ming army's response speed was obviously a beat slower, and the Qing army used swords and shields to block arrow damage at the same time, the whole army also began to move quickly. In this way, many of the arrows of the Bright Army will miss, and after shortening the distance, the Qing army in the offensive form can also reduce the time to endure being attacked, thus accelerating the pace of the attack.

The smoke cleared, and after three rounds of blind shooting, the Ming army suddenly found that the opponent had rushed to a distance of about thirty meters. In a panic, the pikemen in the front row of the Ming army immediately flattened their spears, preparing to repel the enemy. But at this moment, the experienced Qing army once again took the lead.

At this moment, Liu Da had already put the shield behind him again, and changed positions with the javelin that was still behind him before, and the moment his vision was clear again, the spearman in front of Liu Da immediately turned sideways to get out of the way, while Liu Da and the other sword and shield soldiers standing in the back row rushed to the front of the formation, and then threw the javelin in his hand with the power of his body to sprint forward.

"Medium!"

The javelins in the sky crossed the short distance of thirty meters in an instant, and the Ming army with less experience in the battle formation was far from reacting, only a very small number of sword and shield soldiers re-erected their shields at the moment when the mutation was prominent, and those in the front row of Ming soldiers who did not have the protection of the shield were either hit by a shot and fell to the ground and died, or were hit by non-vital parts such as limbs, abdomen and other non-vital parts and fell to a pool of blood and wailed miserably, only a few lucky ones were able to pass the first round of throwing unharmed.

Fortunately, most of the Ming troops in the first few rows of the battle formation were relatively elite, and after finding that they were no longer able to throw javelins, throwing knives, throwing axes and other projectile weapons first, they immediately re-set up their shields to defend against the sword and shield soldiers in the front row, while the sword and shield soldiers in the back row threw weapons to counterattack.

At this time, the sword and shield soldiers of the Raising Battalion did not rush to throw the second round after throwing the first round of javelins, but reinterpreted the way they had just launched the attack after the pikemen who had just been overtaken quickly chased to the front row.

"Medium!"

This time, the prepared Ming army did not suffer too many casualties, under the protection of the sword and shield soldiers, only a few soldiers were hit and injured by the javelins flying in from the shield interval, but the first platoon of the Ming army was no longer a spearman who resisted the enemy, but a sword and shield soldier who should defend with a shield.

After throwing the javelin for the second time, the sword and shield soldiers of the Qing army still did not rush to throw the last javelin, but the pikemen of the Qing army at this moment did not stop anymore, and went straight to the battle formation of the Ming army.

Twenty-five meters......

Twenty meters ......

Fifteen meters!

The pikemen of the Qing army hurriedly stopped at the order of the officer and half-crouched on the ground, while the sword and shield soldiers in the back row threw the third javelin at this time.

The javelins swept through the sky overhead, and the Qing spearmen rushed forward with a roar, while the sword and shield men took off their shields and drew their swords to follow. Correspondingly, the sword and shield soldiers in the front row of the Ming army had to defend against the flying javelins, but also had to block the opponent's spears, and casualties were inevitable when they lost one or the other.

This kind of cooperation requires a long run-in, the Qing army is the old battalion head of the army for more than ten years, although there is a continuous influx of new soldiers, but since the beginning of the Lu Jianguo army attack on the Qiantang River, Dolgon did not choose to split Tian Xiong's generals and soldiers out of the consideration of suppressing the anti-Qing forces in Zhejiang, and later Tian Xiong was promoted to the governor of Zhejiang, so the cohesion of this army is far from being comparable to their opponents who belong to various departments.

On the battlefield at this moment, the left battalion of the left wing of the Qing army and the left and right battalions of Dalanshan on the right flank of the Ming army, as well as the middle roads of both sides, have collided together, while the right wing of the Qing army still seems to be progressing slowly because of road problems. Even so, the left flank of the Ming army did not take advantage of the situation to outflank them, because the opponent they were about to face was the trump card in the standard camp, and their own side belonged to several Ming armies, and they only temporarily accepted the dispatch of Du Xingguo, the general soldier of Xue Ao.

Due to the loss of the first move, the Ming army has always been in a passive situation since receiving the enemy, plus the opponent's armor and weapons are more sophisticated, and even the soldiers in the first few rows are almost wearing double armor to move forward, so the casualties of the Ming army have climbed much faster than the opponent. Although Wang Yi does not have God's perspective and cannot see the specific numbers, he can easily see that his own front is always being suppressed by the opponent, the right flank of the left and right battalions is fine, but the middle of the front and middle battalions is already a little concave.

It's not the way to go on like this.

Although the troops that meet the enemy are also composed of the elite of the Ming army of Dalan Mountain and the Ming army of Siming Mountain, the ability to endure casualties is not stronger than that of the opponent's veterans of a hundred battles.

It can't go on like this!

Wang Yi gritted his teeth and ordered to send out the signal that had been scheduled before.

As a firework rose into the sky, the Ming army of Chen Tianshu's subordinate who was lurking in the woods on the side of the battlefield immediately got up and led the war horse out of the woods, then turned over and went straight to the banner of the Chinese army behind the Qing army.